Gorgeous sunset from Mt Tabor park. Lots of big, downed trees on the north and east side of the park from our ARCTIC WINDS three weeks ago. But honestly the damage wasn’t quite as bad as I feared. I guess the historic shelter took a pretty good hit but that part of the park was cordoned off.
I was intrigued so I looked up the average high and low temperatures across WA for August of 1899. Olga's average low of 45F is pretty impressive as it's about 4 degrees colder than anything we've seen in the last 50 years. The fact it's so much colder than every other location on the west side does make me wonder if there was an error with the thermometer at that time or maybe it was just incredible cold winds blowing off the straight.
The Seattle average high for the month was almost 10 d
Looks like SLE is still offline. The warministas finally got to it.
@SilverFallsAndrew might have to kiss the streak of cooler than average months there goodbye
My position was that it was too much cold and wet and that nature always seems to offset that with even more warm and dry. You can complain about that thinking and say it didn't used to be that way but that seems to be how it works now. And of course none of us control any of it and cold/wet fans take what they can get... but it felt to me like the payback was going to make some people angry.
Really like where the 12z GEFS goes in the long range. Would be nice if the Euro came around eventually.
This would also be a pretty “balanced” outcome after what would be about two weeks of warm and dry weather at that point. At least the modern type of balance that leaves us with slightly warmer and drier than average months on the whole, but not shockingly so.
Recommended Posts
Posted by Cascadia_Wx,
18 reactions
Go to this post
Posted by Skagit Weather,
4 reactions
Go to this post
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.